Logo Design Love

Comments on wide-ranging topics of identity design.

Coverjunkie

Magazine covers both new and old, from the controversial to the well-known.

UserOnboard

Detailed analyses of onboarding flows of various apps, including reasoning behind GUI decisions.

Art of the Title

Hundreds of movie title sequences, from classics to blockbusters.

GUIdebook

User interfaces of old desktop operating systems.

Web Design Museum

A chronicle of trends in web design, as represented by sites from 1991 to 2006.

Sci-Fi Corridor Archive

Kilometres of sci-fi corridors, from old to recent.

Science Fiction Interfaces

The user interfaces of distant worlds.

Fictional Brands Archive

Identities for brands that appear in popular fiction.

Hubert Herald

Historical and modern arms and emblems by country. A few articles are in Dutch.

A Guide to Software for Heraldry

By me. Spans vector, raster, and specially designed programs.

A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry

One of the main heraldic dictionaries of note.

Links to Online Rolls of Arms

A list of rolls of arms available online, hosted by the Viking Answer Lady.

Legends of Localization

The art and science of localising videogames.

Letters of Note

A collection of letters from authors, scientists, politicians, and celebrities.

Message to 12K

What will deter post-apocalyptic society from entering nuclear waste facilities?

The Left/Right Game

The /r/NoSleep subreddit is usually quite bad, but this story's... actually pretty great.

DHMO.org

Dihydrogen monoxide is one of the most dangerous modern health crises, yet it remains shockingly underreported.

Plane Crash Series

Profiles of airplane disasters), with detailed analyses of what went wrong and why.

DreamBank

Over 20,000 accounts of people's dreams, in both English and German.

The Analog Antiquarian

A history of (western) ancient wonders of the world.

Marginalia

A search engine focused on the non-commercial web.

Tales of Times Forgotten

A neat history blog covering a variety of topics.

Sustainability of Digital Formats

The Library of Congress's guide to file formats.

Museum of Failure Collection

Sometimes things just don't work out.

Twine

A extensive web tool for composing interactive fiction.

irony-machine

maya.land

kokoscript

maia.crimew.gay

indieblog.page

Discover random posts from independent blogs.

Wikipedia

I'm an editor there.

Wiktionary

A surprisingly accurate and comprehensive dictionary for any conceivable language.

Wikimedia Commons

Hundreds of thousands of free media files.

Internet Archive

See how thousands of sites looked at any point in history, and browse hundreds of public domain games and books.

Project Gutenberg

Another great site for public-domain books.

The Cutting Room Floor

All the unused, cut, and otherwise unplayable content in videogaming.

Digital Transgender Archive

Trans people have been around a lot longer than one may think.

The Medieval Bestiary

A guide to animals that is rather outdated.

Ars Technica

The one tech site that I still read on a regular basis.

Folklore

Stories from then-employees of Apple during its early years.

The Useless Web

A button that takes you to a random site with no reason for existing. Not everything needs to have a purpose.

The History of the Web

A gargantuan work-in-progress telling of the whole story of the World Wide Web.

Fonts In Use

Typefaces in use in packaging, posters, and other graphic material.

Typewolf

Trending website fonts, pairing guides, recommendations, and lookbooks.

Typeset in the Future

The typographical choices behind popular films such as Alien and Blade Runner.

Son of Typecasting

A series which discusses incorrect type in historical films.

OHNO Type School

How each letter in the alphabet is crafted from a font designer's perspective.

On snot and fonts

Computer scientist Luc Devroye's guide to the typographic world. I don't agree with everything, but it's very useful.

OpenType Feature Database

A guide to the various OpenType features that exist.

UniView

Inspect Unicode text in detail.

Character Properties

Similar to UniView, but maintained by the Unicode Foundation.

Shady Characters

How various characters came to exist.

Wakamai Fondue

Analyse various aspects of a font file, such as OpenType features and character sets.

Living Room Candidate

Presidential ads from the US from 1952 to 2020.

Dan Olson

In-depth analysis of films, video games, and the wider world through the "mechanisms of storytelling".

Noclip

Crowdfunded video game documentaries, including interviews with famous creators.

Ahoy

In-depth documentaries about video gaming and computing history.

My Name Is Andong

Food from around the world.

Atrocity Guide

Coverage of "the anomalies of the internet and beyond".

Strange Aeons

Internet stories and history.

Monospace

Tumblr witch bone thief

Puparia

Soviet synth

Moebius Gives 18 Tips to Artists

Tips by one of the comic greats, Jean Giraud (alias Moebius).

Public Domain Review

Stories about art which, as the title suggests, is largely in the public domain.

100 Photographs

TIME magazine's collection of the "100 most influential photographs ever taken".

Play

A JavaScript playground with a shading API that makes some neat patterns.

art-exlibris.net

A "digital ex libris museum" with thousands of bookplates in varying styles.

The Eclectic Light Co.

A blog covering two completely separate subjects, both which I like - Mac software workings and fine art.

Rotating Sandwiches

Photogrammetry is cool.

Doodad.dev

Tools for generating creative and efficient web graphical elements.

Glaze Project

Experimental anti-neural network cloaking for images.

Project A119

"The aim of the project was to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon." As you might guess, conspiracy theorists like it.

Analog hole

You wouldn't steal this website...

Barnum effect

Also known as the Forer effect.

Black swan theory

Oh yeah, there were clues that it was going to happen all along. Totally.

List of common misconceptions

You most likely believe one of these.

Cognitive dissonance

When a person is able to hold conflicting beliefs simultaneously.

Defence mechanism

No, my website isn't bad! It's really good actually!

Demon Sheep

The best political ad ever.

List of cognitive biases

We all have them.

List of eponymous laws

There's literally one for every letter of the alphabet excepting Q.

Lamest edit wars

Is it the Liancourt Rocks or Dokdo? Derry or Londonderry?

List of really stupid article ideas

Wow, yes, it is totally time to create an article about my pet cat.

Malana, Himachal Pradesh

The oldest democracy in the world.

Map–territory relation

The differences between a thing and its representation. Related to the concept of reification

Merism

High and low. Heaven and earth. Greater and lesser.

Operation Vegetarian

A WW2 plan to kill millions of Germans by... feeding cows anthrax. Testing contaminated a Scottish island.

Unusual articles

Breast. Shaped. Hill.

List of unusual deaths

Death comes for all of us. But not necessarily like it does for these people.